Competencies covered: Observation and Reporting • Identification and Classification • Discovery of Facts
Competency
Tasks
No. of Questions
1. Observation and Reporting
Picture-based + Observation-based + MCQ
15
2. Identification and Classification
Identification + Classification + MCQ
15
3. Discovery of Facts
Find/Discover + Why-based MCQ
15
Remember: Eat a variety of foods, include protective foods, body-building foods and energy-giving foods, drink enough water, avoid too much junk food, and value every grain and resource.
Source basis: NCERT Our Wondrous World, Unit 3, Chapter 5 “Food for Health” (uploaded lesson). The worksheet uses the lesson’s terminology such as shad rasa, food groups, balanced food plate, water for health and cooking methods.
COMPETENCY 1 – OBSERVATION AND REPORTING
A. Picture-Based Questions (5 questions)
Look carefully at each lesson picture and answer the question. (Pictures are from the NCERT lesson pages.)
1. What event is shown in the picture? Write any two food items that you can identify.
Suggested Answer: Food festival; any two visible/lesson foods such as fruits, vegetables, sprouts, dhokla, dosa, roasted corn, etc.
2. The picture shows three purposes of food. Name any two purposes shown.
Suggested Answer: Body building; energy; protection from diseases (any two).
3. Observe the picture. Write any three foods shown that should not be eaten regularly in large quantities.
4. What healthy habit is represented by the picture? Why is it important?
Suggested Answer: Drinking water; water helps digestion, keeps the body/skin healthy and helps remove waste.
5. Name any three methods of cooking that you can see in the picture.
Suggested Answer: Any three: boiling, steaming, frying, roasting, grilling, baking.
B. Observation-Based Questions
6. Observe your own lunch box. List two food items in it and write whether each is energy-giving, body-building or protective.
Suggested Answer: Answers will vary according to the learner’s observation and home context. (Example: roti – energy-giving; dal – body-building; salad – protective.)
7. Look at a plate of food at home. Which food group seems to be present the most? Which group is missing, if any?
Suggested Answer: Answers will vary according to the learner’s observation and home context.
8. Observe a packaged food item at home. Write its expiry/best-before date and two ingredients printed on the label.
Suggested Answer: Answers will vary according to the learner’s observation and home context.
9. Observe how one food item is prepared at home. Is it boiled, steamed, roasted, grilled, fried, baked, or eaten without cooking? Write the method.
Suggested Answer: Answers will vary according to the learner’s observation and home context.
10. Observe your water-drinking habit for one day. Write two times when you drank water and explain why drinking sufficient water is a healthy habit.
Suggested Answer: Answers will vary. Importance: Water helps digestion, keeps the body healthy and helps remove waste.
C. MCQ – Choose the correct answer.
11. Which food group helps us grow, build muscles and become strong?
(a) Energy-giving foods
(b) Body-building foods
(c) Junk foods
(d) Only water
Answer: (b) Body-building foods
12. Which of these is a protective food?
(a) Spinach
(b) Butter
(c) Rice
(d) Sugar
Answer: (a) Spinach
13. Which one is an example of junk food mentioned in the lesson?
(a) Guava
(b) Pulses
(c) Chips
(d) Milk
Answer: (c) Chips
14. Which taste is NOT one of the six tastes of shad rasa?
(a) Sweet
(b) Sour
(c) Bitter
(d) Cold
Answer: (d) Cold
15. Which statement is correct?
(a) Only one food group is enough every day.
(b) Fresh home-cooked food is better than regularly eating over-processed packaged food.
(c) Water is not part of a healthy diet.
(d) We should avoid all fruits.
Answer: (b) Fresh home-cooked food is better than regularly eating over-processed packaged food.
COMPETENCY 2 – IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION
A. Identification – Identify and write the correct answer.
1. The six tastes—sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent—are collectively called .
Answer: Shad rasa
2. Rice, wheat, maize and millets are examples of foods rich in .
Answer: Energy (or carbohydrates / energy-giving foods)
3. Pulses, chickpeas, tofu, milk and eggs are examples of foods.
Answer: Body-building
4. Fruits and vegetables such as carrot, orange, papaya and spinach are called foods.
Answer: Protective
5. A professional cook who is skilled in food preparation is called a .
Answer: Chef
B. Classification – Put each item in the correct group.
6. Classify these foods as Energy-giving, Body-building or Protective: rice, peanuts, carrot, butter, milk, orange.
7. Classify these by cooking method: idli, samosa, papad, rice, dosa, kheer. Use suitable headings such as steaming, frying, roasting, boiling and other methods from the lesson.
Suggested Classification:
Steaming: idli, dosa (partly)
Frying: samosa, papad (often)
Boiling: rice, kheer
(Other acceptable classifications based on lesson examples and reasoning are fine.)
8. Classify these as healthy choices or junk/less healthy choices when eaten regularly in large quantities: guava, chips, fresh home-cooked dal, soft drink, spinach, burger.
